James Webb Space Telescope

Anyone else excited AF for this?

Supposedly it's supposed to launch November or December (I'm not sure which, I've read both). Apparently it's been delayed a bunch already and gone way over budget ($10 billion!), though.

But it should be incredible once finished assuming it gets established without a hitch.

I am. I follow a lot of astronomy youtubers like Anton Petrov, Scott Manly. PBS Spacetime, S.E.A and they've done quite a bit of content on the JWST.

My only concern is they make an error like they did with Hubble when the focus was off and needed astronauts to go up and fix it because that won't be possible with the JWST being deployed at the Sun/Earth Legrange point.

Ja, it's going to be a bit nerve-wracking. I guess that's why they keep delaying to make sure everything is just right?

I may have to look up some of those YouTube channels, thanks. Links would be appreciated.

YouTube video

How far can this telescope, shall I say, scope?

YouTube video

Originally posted by Blakemore
How far can this telescope, shall I say, scope?

And what it will see will be — and I'm not using this word lightly — remarkable. One of its main targets will be the early universe, when our cosmos was just a few hundred million years old. The first stars and galaxies to appear on the cosmic scene blazed brightly in the visible spectrum, but over the course of the past 13 billion years the universe has expanded, stretching that light out of the visible range and down into the infrared — right in the sweet spot of the JWST's design parameters.

https://www-space-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.space.com/amp/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-worth-wait.html?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a6&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16323173410824&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2Fnasa-james-webb-space-telescope-worth-wait.html

Cool!

If we can encase the motion and the mass we can get an energy read. It should be interesting to find exactly what energy level started the Big Bang. Gamma rays were one of the earliest precursor but not the causal.

It wasn’t a Big Bang, it was a great expansion.

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Ja, it's going to be a bit nerve-wracking. I guess that's why they keep delaying to make sure everything is just right?

I may have to look up some of those YouTube channels, thanks. Links would be appreciated.

https://youtube.com/c/whatdamath

https://youtube.com/c/szyzyg

https://youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime

https://youtube.com/c/astrumspace

https://youtube.com/c/SEAmedia

https://youtube.com/c/DrBecky

https://youtube.com/c/JohnMichaelGodier

That's a wee selection of some of the channels.

Word of warning, PBS Space Time is hard-core AF physics. I have no idea what he's going on about in most his videos especially the quantum stuff.

Mostly it’s transcendency. One level unknown becomes a greater cause that the definition becomes capable of. Thus advancements.
It could be known factors too. The intro position of quantum movement is immeasurable instruction of sense so that power can improve knowledge.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
I am. I follow a lot of astronomy youtubers like Anton Petrov, Scott Manly. PBS Spacetime, S.E.A and they've done quite a bit of content on the JWST.

My only concern is they make an error like they did with Hubble when the focus was off and needed astronauts to go up and fix it because that won't be possible with the JWST being deployed at the Sun/Earth Legrange point.

TIL: What the "Sun/Earth Legrange point" is 👆

So they basically have one shot to get it in perfect focus, otherwise it's a 10 billion dollar turd orbiting in space?

Originally posted by Robtard
TIL: What the "Sun/Earth Legrange point" is 👆

So they basically have one shot to get it in perfect focus, otherwise it's a 10 billion dollar turd orbiting in space?

It's essentially a point between the sun and the earth where their gravitational force on an object between them is equal.

Yeah, I googled after I read what you said.

Originally posted by Robtard
Yeah, I googled after I read what you said.

Originally posted by Robtard
I googled

Originally posted by Elefantigo
Dumbass

Originally posted by Elefantigo
that's what we in the states call "grasping at straws"

Hi Broly.

Originally posted by Robtard
Hi Broly.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
It's essentially a point between the sun and the earth where their gravitational force on an object between them is equal.

It's got to be a piece of cake to jettison a big $10 billion camera to just hang out there, right?